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🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield. |
0:08.0 | First of all, congratulations on being named Best FIFA Men's coach for the second year in a row. |
0:14.6 | I know you quoted Arsenbanger in saying to be a good coach a world-class team helps and |
0:21.0 | obviously you've got four players named in the World 11 as well, but ultimately you're |
0:25.0 | responsible for assembling and getting the best out of that team. |
0:28.4 | So what does an award like this mean to you personally? |
0:37.0 | Well, thank you very much, first of all. Oh, yeah, I'm grateful for it obviously. |
0:44.0 | The first moment it was like everybody else. |
0:48.0 | I was like looking a little bit white-eyed, like, how did that happen? I didn't expect it, not at all. I thought Hansi Fleek won pretty much everything in the last year. |
1:00.0 | That would be the case. I wanted to be there because I wanted to show respect because it was last year in Milan and when it was a really nice event. |
1:09.8 | Pochetino was there as well and these kind of stuff so I thought that night if I will |
1:15.1 | be nominated again I will show up even if I have no chance to win it. And then now meanwhile I know that it's like obviously four different categories, managers, all of the world voted, the majority of them voted for me, players as well media and fans obviously more fancy |
1:34.9 | flick which I get completely and then it's not my choice so I'm now I'm happy about it to be |
1:41.9 | honest it's a special it's a special thing for my coaches and me. I saw them now already. They were buzzing and actually if you would have asked me |
1:56.0 | Are you the world best coach? I would have said, no. |
1:58.1 | If you would have asked me, do you have the world best coaches around? |
2:00.6 | You would have said, yes. |
2:02.0 | So we take that world like this it's it's |
2:06.1 | all good there are more important things in the world but it's a nice one I've got |
2:11.2 | to ask you about this again because obviously there was a vote yesterday |
2:13.9 | five substitutes wasn't voted in but the naming of nine players on the bench was |
2:18.6 | how adequate a compromise is that in your view? |
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